Windows Live Mail & Windows 10: Work Ok?

Draeger

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Hi folks,

Was setting up a friends new PC which has W10 installed. We installed Office 2010 and attempted to set up Outlook 2010 with his email address which was a POP3 on his previous PC running Windows 8.1, but it would only receive and not send. Upon doing some Googling it appears that Outlook 2010 isn't compatible with W10 and loads of users have had issues to that effect with receiving but not being able to send. I tried configuring the email address using IMAP settings but that didn't work either.

Anyhow, was pondering our options now. Having read up on it a bit, lots of people don't rate the inbuilt Mail client in W10 that highly. Is it useable or is it a bit limited? The other option is to try using the latest Windows Live Mail 2012 build in the Windows Essentials download but having read about that it seems some W10 users have problems with that and some say it works fine. Which is it?

Lastly, he could bite the bullet and buy the latest MS Office but he's not that taken with the idea. I've also tried explaining that third party mail clients like Thunderbird etc would be worth looking at but he is reluctant to do so for some strange reason!

Any thoughts from Windows Live Mail 2012 users who are on W10?

Ta. :)
 
Draeger said:
Lastly, he could bite the bullet and buy the latest MS Office but he's not that taken with the idea. I've also tried explaining that third party mail clients like Thunderbird etc would be worth looking at but he is reluctant to do so for some strange reason!
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Its either Thunderbird or pay for MS Office just for an E-Mail Client, absolutely nothing wrong with Thunderbird from what I have experienced and I have been using it ever since I installed Windows 7 as that didnt come with E-Mail Client by default.

Mail Client, Free or Paid for. Not exactly a hard decision, tell him the people that made Firefox also made Thunderbird Client.

Try setting up what he has always used first and if it doesn't work out then tell him its Thunderbird or Office.
 
It is absolutely fine, I have no idea why people score it badly.
However it is only set up for home use. It is not a business replacement for outlook and all it's bells and whistles.
 
Cheers for the replies chaps.

Hyburnate said:
Office is £30 on the bay
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£30? :eek:

Dano said:
WLM has run fine on all the W10 machines I have set it up on.
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Good to know, ta.

Glaucus said:
It is absolutely fine, I have no idea why people score it badly.
However it is only set up for home use. It is not a business replacement for outlook and all it's bells and whistles.
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The W10 Mail client you mean?

alphaomega16 said:
Its either Thunderbird or pay for MS Office just for an E-Mail Client, absolutely nothing wrong with Thunderbird from what I have experienced
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Agree, I've used Thunderbird myself in the past and found it to be very good. :)
 
I personally just use the inbuilt mail app. It is very slick and has a decent amount of features, though some of them are quite well hidden!
 
Have you tried "sfc /scannow" from an administrator command prompt, as this should fix it.

Alternatively Microsoft claim the issue was fixed in an update so has the machine installed all the Windows 10 updates yet?
 
Thanks for the replies, folks. Appreciated. Went over this morning and we installed Windows Live Mail 2012, it all appears to be working just fine.

@andshrew - I tried sfc /scannow and it ran through the process but didn't fix the issue. As far as I can tell this fix generally works when people have upgraded to W10 from Windows 8/8.1. During the upgrade I believe the location of some folders which Outlook 2010 needs access to, are moved for some unknown reason. I think the 'fix' sorts that out. However, this PC wasn't upgraded from Windows 8/8.1 - it's a brand new off the shelf HP desktop which came with W10 on it. So I can only assume the sfc /scannow fix only works if you have upgraded? Not sure. It was worth a shot though, ta!! :D
 
Office/Outlook 2010 works fine with Windows 10 once patched up with all service packs & updates.

Be careful if you are using Windows Live Mail with a hotmail/live/outlook account as they are moving those to exchange active sync instead of delta sync, there is a patch available but not well advertised.

I'm trying to move people from Live Mail to the inbox (Acompli) mail app but sometimes come up against the following blockers;-

1) No ability to create folders
2) When not using an MS account you cannot import contacts, IMHO the people app should be able to read contacts from the Windows user contacts folder
3) No OS level integration, i.e send to > mail recipient does not find a mail client installed, same emailing from any win32 app for example Picasa
 
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